ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Are you hep to the jive? ‘This Week’ in Retro Atlanta promises the jolt you’ve needed to kick Old Man Winter’s tail and spring into action like the good little misfits and miscreants you are! So come on out, make a little mischief and rock out with the rest of us! Come check out all the swell shenanigans we’ve found for you!

Monday, March 21

Make your way to the Alpharetta Branch Library for their screening of Gregory La Cava’s STAGE DOOR (1937) at 10:30am! Get some soul with Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires at the Variety Playhouse! Blues it up with Barrelhouse Bob Page at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a night with The Pork Bellies! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Blast-Off Burlesque starts your week off right with a night of adults-only “SCI-FI” trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club at 8:30pm! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta!

Tuesday, March 22

Groove on down to the Red Light Café as the BadAsh Allstar Team pays tribute to Prince! Penny & Sparrow dish out a night of Americana ‘n’ roots at Eddie’s Attic! Blues it up with Joe McGuinness at Blind Willie’s! The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, March 23

Get cinematic with “La Nouvelle Vague” at Emory Cinematheque’s screening of Alain Resnais’ HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) during their “French New-Waves: Classics & Rediscoveries” series at 7:30pm! It’s a night of comedy and sketches at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge with Scene Missing’s ATLabyrinth! Terminal West presents “A Night of David Bowie” with The Ziggy Stardust Tribute! TCM presents their Big Screen Classics 60th Anniversary screening of Cecil B. Demille’s epic , THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) at 2pm/7pm in theatres across Atlanta [Avalon Stadium 12 (Alpharetta); Regal Hollywood Stadium 24 (Chamblee); Cinemark Tinseltown 17 (Fayetteville); AMC Barrett Commons 24 (Kennesaw); AMC Sugarloaf Mills 18 (Lawrenceville); Regal McDonough Stadium 16; and Georgian Stadium (Newnan)]! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Joe Satriani! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for their Albert Collins Tribute! Join the Muppet mayhem at the Decatur Library as they screen James Frawley’s THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) at 1pm! Folk it up with Barnaby Bright at Grocery on Home! Jaap Blonk delivers a night of sound poetry celebrating the Dada Centennial at EyeDrum! Lola gets down and dirty at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Dusty Roads! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, March 24

Rock out at The Star Bar with The Supersuckers, Jesse Dayton and Dead Soldiers! Get the Led Out pays tribute to Led Zeppelin at the Fox Theatre! Get some Appalachian soul with Upstate Rubdown and Cortez Garza at the Red Light Café! “Grace Slick meets Led Zeppelin” with The Broadcast as they rock out at The Earl with Autumn Attics! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Get funky New Orleans-style with The Mar-Tans at Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Eagles/Alabama Tribute concert! Get smooth at Venkman’s with Yacht Rock Schooner! Blues on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with George Hughley & The Shadows! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, March 25

Kool Kats The Blackfoot Gypsies deliver a night of rockin’ garage blues with The Yawpers at Smith’s Olde Bar! Get some ‘50s and ‘60s Georgia soul with Kool Kat Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics at The Earl! Or make your way to the Variety Playhouse as Yacht Rock Revue performs “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “Abbey Road”! DJ Doctor Q presents his Speakeasy Electro Swing Atlanta at the Red Light Café featuring the Swingrowers! Rev it up with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles at the Deep South Pub in McDonough! “Swing into Spring” at Steve’s Live Music with the Marlatov Cocktail Swingers followed by the Electromatics featuring Jon Liebman! The 9th Street Stompers dish out a night of hillbilly swingin’ hot jazz at Venkman’s! Sandra Hall & The Shadows get down and dirty at Blind Willie’s! Truett Lollis delivers a night of blues and soul at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! The Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event turns into a ‘20s/’30s speakeasy with The HoboHemians! Make your way to The Earl Smith Strand Theatre for their Eagles/Alabama Tribute concert! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, March 26

It’s Rockabilly Night at The Star Bar, so rev on down for a night with Kool Kat Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho-Devilles, The Royal Hounds and Little Lesley & The Bloodshots! It’s a night of psychobilly and horror punk at The Highlander with Burns Like Fire, Wolfspider and Crypt 24! Dad’s Garage Theatre gets porky with Baconfest 2016 featuring carnival games, piggies galore, live performances by The Honkytonk Extravaganza (Kool Kat Rich Desantis), Blast-Off Burlesque, and more! Rock on down to the Park Tavern for their Oyster & Crawfish Fest featuring Cowboy Mouth! Or shuck on down to Tin Roof Cantina for their Sham Jam Shuckfest featuring live performances by Chicago Joe’s School of Rock, Kool Kat Caleb & the Gents, Little Country Giants, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, Heavy Chevy, Cousin Dan and more! Get really retro in Marietta at the grand opening of The Viking Alchemist Meadery from 12-8pm! Shake a tail feather on down to the Little Vinyl Lounge for their “Twistin’ in the Lounge” event and boogie the night away as Dusty Booze dishes out the weirdest and kookiest ‘50s/’60s rock ‘n’ roll! Byrne & Kelly dish out a night of traditional Irish folk at the Red Light Café! Rock out with Rusted Root at the Variety Playhouse! Steve’s Live Music gets down bluegrass and Dixieland style with La Terza Classe and Escape Vehicle! Jazz it up with the Elgin Wells Group at the Elliott Street Pub! Honkytonk on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for a night with Dale Watson & His Lonestars and Cold Heart Canyon! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty with Little G. Weevil! Blues it up with Bob Margolin at Blind Willie’s! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! Get the blues with Grant Green, Jr. at Venkman’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, March 27

Get sinfully saucy at Smith’s Olde Bar as The Candybox Revue presents their Bunny Bash with Delinda D’Rabbit, Kool Kat Ursula Undress, Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Kool Kat Roula Roulette and more! Mike Farris dishes out a night of rockin’ blues at Eddie’s Attic! Jazz it up with Matthew Kaminksi at Venkman’s! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm!

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.